Defender for Hire by McCoy Shirlee

Author:McCoy, Shirlee [McCoy, Shirlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dpgroup.org, Fluffer Nutter
Amazon: B00BK0XHVI
Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense
Published: 2013-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

If there’d been a fire escape outside the window, Tessa would have been tempted to use it. After she’d told Seth about the promise she’d made, about the secret she was hiding, the last thing she wanted to do was open the door.

Seth knocked again.

“Ignoring me won’t make me go away,” he said.

Too bad, because she planned to ignore him awhile longer.

She should have kept her mouth shut about Andrew. Now she was going to have to do some damage control.

“Tessa?” He wiggled the doorknob.

She’d locked it.

For once, she was ahead of her problems.

But not that far ahead. Seth probably had a key. If not, she was sure he could find a way to unlock the door if he really wanted to.

She had a feeling he’d want to.

She glanced around the room, fighting the absurd urge to hide under the bed.

The doorknob wiggled again. “You better be decent, Tessa, because I’m coming in.”

“Don’t you dare—”

The door opened, and Seth stepped into the room.

“How did you do that!” she sputtered, her heart pounding double time.

“Easy.” He glowered, his brows drawn together, his eyes flashing with irritation. “This is a safe house, Tessa. It’s not safe if we can’t get to our clients.”

“I’m not your client.”

“So you keep reminding me.”

“It’s true.” She stood her ground, not backing up as Seth approached.

“Let me make this clear, okay? While you’re here, you’re going to be treated like a client. Clients do not lock themselves in rooms to avoid questions they don’t want to answer. If they do, I open the door and keep right on asking.”

“You can keep asking, but I can’t answer your questions, so I guess we’re at an impasse,” she retorted, relieved that her voice didn’t tremble, that she sounded as angry as he seemed to be.

“That’s your choice, Tessa.” He brushed hair from her neck, his fingers skimming over the fading bruises to make a point. “The problem is that you’re in danger. Do you want to die with your secret? Or live without it? Because it seems to me, that’s what all this is coming down to,” he growled.

“I...”

“What?” He raked a hand through his hair. “Tell me, because I don’t understand how anything can be as important as your life.”

“There are plenty of things, plenty of people who are just as important.”

“What people?”

“The mission spent two years planning and building a church and an orphanage in Kenya. From the day we met until the day he died, that was Daniel’s life’s goal. His parents were missionaries to Kenya when he was a kid, and he wanted to go back to serve the people there.” She rubbed her arms, willing away the chill that settled deep in her bones every time she thought about Daniel and his dream.

“And?” Seth pulled the comforter from the end of the bed and wrapped it around her shoulders, the gesture so sweet that her heart skipped a beat.

“I don’t want anything to happen to what he and the rest of the mission team built.

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